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Prompted by a post on Delphi Praxis, I just added a new feature to the Expert Manager expert in GExperts (lots of experts here š ): It can now change the order in which the… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I think we as Germans still cannot really appreciate the effect he had on our country. I also think the war against Ukraine would not have happened if he had been in charge for a… … Read more
3 years ago in none0
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As a follow up to my notes on installing Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (on 20.04 it worked as in 18.04) now two additional steps are necessary for Ubuntu 22.04. Those steps must be… … Read more
3 years ago in linux0
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So I donāt forget: Microsoft seems to love changing the place where they hide useful configuration options. One that I always turn on is āUnderline access keys when availableā and in Windows 10 it is… … Read more
3 years ago in windows, Windows 100
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Those people who selected the default colors for the Linux ls command must have much better eyes than I. E.g. I think that dark blue text on black background is very difficult to read, but… … Read more
3 years ago in linux0
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After making the source code of dzDebugVisualizer available I got interested in Debug Visualizers in general and had a look at how they are supported in Delphi 11. I wrote a visualizer for TColor, based… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, dzDebugVisualizer0
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Several years ago I wrote a Delphi IDE plugin to extend the functionality of the āEvaluate and Modifyā dialog as well as the Watches window called dzDebugVisualizer and even released an update for it. Back… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, dzDebugVisualizer0
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I just released dzBdsLauncher 1.0.9. If started with a .bdsproj file, it will now not just assume that a .dpr file must exist but will check for it and if it does not exist, will… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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One of my computerās hard disk didnāt survive a recent power failure so I had to set up its Thunderbird client again (a backup didnāt work, donāt ask). My internal IMAP server uses a self… … Read more
3 years ago in linux, thunderbird0
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Linux (and other Unixes) store user information in a file called passwd and the associated passwords in another file called shadow, both located in /etc. Both files are text files and use a : as… … Read more
3 years ago in linux0
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The homepage of GnuGetText for Delphi (dxgettext) seems to be down (it redirects to www.delphidk.dk which my DNS cannot resolve). Here is a link to the last archived version on the Internet Archive. … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, dxgettext0
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Starting with GExperts 1.3.20 calling the standalone Experts Manager displayed the error message “GExpertsInst is not a valid reference”. After that the tool actually works fine. This bug has now been fixed in the current… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I fixed a bug in the dxgettext executable which made it add wrong ressource string names to the po files which in turn made the msgmergePOT tool select wrong translations. You will have to compile… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, dxgettext0
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You may remember that I was forced to reduce GExperts support for Delphi 6 a while ago, because the IDE no longer started on my computer. It turns out that it was a GExperts bug… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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A long time ago I added the Identifier tab to the Uses Clause Manager in GExperts. It looks like this: In this screen shot, I filtered for TWinControl and the expert found several matching entries,… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0